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Assembly Bill A11658

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor

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2009-A11658 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7898
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3420, S4455
2013-2014: A1742, S2184
2015-2016: A4232, S2542
2017-2018: A4818, S2720

2009-A11658 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor.

2009-A11658 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11658

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              July 6, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Titus) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to granting tenants,
  with a physically disabling condition that affects their  mobility,  a
  preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the
  same  building  in  projects  operated  by  the  New York city housing
  authority

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  UPON
THE VACANCY OF A DWELLING UNIT IN ANY PROJECT OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY,
SUCH VACANT DWELLING UNIT SHALL FIRST BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR OCCUPANCY TO
ANY TENANT WITHIN THE SAME BUILDING WHO LIVES ON A HIGHER FLOOR THAN THE
VACANT  DWELLING UNIT, WHEN THE VACANT DWELLING UNIT IS THE SAME SIZE OR
SMALLER THAN THE UNIT OCCUPIED BY SUCH TENANT, AND  WHO  HAS  OR  HAS  A
FAMILY  MEMBER  RESIDING WITH HIM OR HER, WHO HAS A PHYSICALLY DISABLING
CONDITION THAT AFFECTS MOBILITY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17367-02-0

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